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I largely agree. However, I have had good luck with a couple of combinations of rifles/ammunition in the WMR.I've owned a Kimber and a couple of Anschutz rifles in 22WMR and,, even with a lot of experimenting with differing brands of ammunition, have been unable to come close to the accuracy of a good 22LR. It's the ammo.
Yeah, I had high hopes for the RWS 40-grain soft-point 22WMR ammunition that I bought from "Dangerous Dave" Cumberland at the Old Western Scrounger when he was in California. Unfortunately, that ammunition didn't do as well as I'd hoped and not as well as the Remington 33-gr.. AccuTip-V load in either my Annies or my custom Kimber.I largely agree. However, I have had good luck with a couple of combinations of rifles/ammunition in the WMR.
An Oregon Kimber I've owned a long time shooting (scarce and pricey) RWS ammunition does quite well. So well, in fact, that I've been hoarding my small supply of the stuff and as a result virtually never shoot the gun. It doesn't do nearly as well with Winchester ammo.
Back in the mid-1970's I bought a Savage-Anschutz 54M (22Mag)......and still have it.I largely agree. However, I have had good luck with a couple of combinations of rifles/ammunition in the WMR.
An Oregon Kimber I've owned a long time shooting (scarce and pricey) RWS ammunition does quite well. So well, in fact, that I've been hoarding my small supply of the stuff and as a result virtually never shoot the gun. It doesn't do nearly as well with Winchester ammo.
A CZ semi-auto I recently came by came with a good supply of 30-grain Hornady. It shoots surprisingly well for a semi-auto, so I plan to take it on my next prairie dog foray.
The most surprising is perhaps a plain Jane Krico bolt action (model designation unknown). I think I posted here on the forum the first two groups I shot with it, again using the 30-grain Hornady stuff. At 100 yards both groups were under .75 moa.
But I'll stipulate that good accuracy is much harder to achieve with the WMR than the LR.
I prefer a scope with parallax adjustment on my rimfire rifles. One gets such satisfaction from those tiny groups lol.Yesterday was warm, overcast, and virtually windless here, so I took advantage of good conditions to do some shooting.
One rifle was my P94 .22LR. What a sweety! Fifty yard groups with a couple of different loads were hovering below a half-inch. Part of that may be the advantage of the Leupold Ultralight 3-9 VX-II AO I have on it which allows you to tune the parallax to the exact yardage. But mostly it's due to the quality that Sako builds into its rimfires. By the way, the factory trigger on this one is about as good as triggers get.